Eve Ensler loves to torment Dylan McDermott. The anguish in question takes place on stage, in Ensler's off-Broadway play, The Treatment (at Culture Project through Oct. 22). In it, the former star of TV's The Practice plays a soldier haunted by committing torture who confides in a therapist.

One night's stay in a room fit for a prince with a view of Central Park at New York's ostentatious Mandarin Oriental hotel now sets you back the same amount as the cost of a brand new medium-sized car.